By William Morris

Art and Socialism was delivered, as a lecture,
to the Leicester Secular Society on January 23rd, 1884.

"Art and Socialism's outstanding feature is perhaps the
stress laid on work as a necessity of human life, not merely as a means of
obtaining a livelihood. Morris insists that only Socialism can restore work to its
proper, central position." — A. L. Morton.

First published as a pamphlet at Leek, 1884 reprinted in The Collected Works of
William Morris, XXIII, 192-214, Cole, 624-45, Jackson, 96-I 14 and and
Political Writings of William Morris, ed. A. L. Morton, 109-133.